just a short time ago, the governor of new york spoke with brian williams about the scale of the disaster that the city and the state are now facing. >> last night, i'll tell you the truth, it was frightening. downtown manhattan, we had the hudson river came over the banks and was pouring into the ground zero site at such a volume that it was really frightening. this was all filled with water. what we're looking at now, this goes back about five miles to the other end of the train track, which is in new jersey. and we have to figure out how to pump out this water. >> think of the three governors, christie in new jersey and cuomo in new york, rebuilding coastlines or talking about plans today. are we the new amsterdam? >> i said kiddingly the other day we have a 100-year flood now every two years. there's a frequency to this. and this is really a new problem for new york state. we have not seen a flood like this, damage like this in our generation. period. people working the subway system and in the construction industry in the state said they have never seen damage like this, period. it's